Gable -- the Hypocritical Zionist

Amidst much publicity, the extreme leftists who make up “Unite Against Fascism,” “Searchlight” and a few similar non-entities, launched their “united front” in 2004.

Observers knew that it was more of a hatred of British people rather than any uniting ideology which kept the extremist leftists together, and that soon – very soon – they would fall apart, most likely over the question of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and Zionism.

Sure enough, it wasn’t long and the inevitable happened. In June 2005, Searchlight’s editor, Steve Silver, announced that his organization was withdrawing from UAF, citing “strategic reasons.”

No-one could quite work out exactly what these “strategic reasons” were --- until Silver gave the game away in a comment in the editorial section of Searchlight magazine: “Also, there was only ever so long that we could participate in an organisation which had leading figures conduct a whispering campaign about Searchlight being ‘Zionists.’”

As a result, Gable and his cohorts have started wailing that “A lot of anti-Semitism is driven by the left. There are elements who take up a position on Israel and Palestine which in reality puts them in league with anti-Semites.”

In reality, Gable could not bear to face up to the reality that much of what he complains about in British Nationalism – a desire to preserve Britain as a British state – is, philosophically speaking, identical to Zionism, which seeks to preserve Israel as a Jewish state.

Gable is quite happy to support Zionism, but has set his heart on attacking British people wishing to do exactly what the Zionists do, for their own people.

Faced with the hypocrisy of his own position when confronted with it by his fellow cranks in UAF, Gable and Searchlight withdrew in a huff rather than admit they were being hypocritical.

* Gable’s son served as an officer in the Israeli Defence Force. "He is certainly no friend of the Palestinian cause - not only is he a self-confessed Zionist, but one of his sons is serving in the Israeli army helping to suppress the Intifada in occupied Palestine" (reference: Jewish Chronicle 23/10/87).